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Who says Christmas is just for kids? Twas The Night Before Christmas is the cheeky, cheery picture book with an adults-only twist on the famous fable by Father Christmas.

Tuck the children to bed, and gather round with the adults to enjoy a well-deserved grown-up chuckle. In this saucy spin on a classic tale, Father Christmas makes his rounds and finds something altogether different atop the Christmas tree.

A boozy, bawdy fairy named Fanny who her own idea of the spirit of giving. Before you know it, Father Christmas turns from very nice to very naughty-faster than a flying...

Four days before Christmas, Michael Jenkins is a victim of a hit and run car accident. He sudden-death throws his wife Ruth, their three children and his mother into a chain of events that will change their lives forever. When Ruth finally tidies out his paperwork, the paperwork leads to two lies that her husband has been keeping from her... He has another life.

The story of three lifelong friends: Ruth Jenkins is left to deal with her mother-in-law Alice after her husbands tragic death, Alice is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. Mandy, the second of the three friends is taking care of her mother who has MS. Taking centre stage, even though she has no idea, is the third friend, Rachel. She is haunted by her childhood memories and in the evening after the 10 o'clock news, she begins her nightly ritual. Life is not all doom and gloom for these friends, there are weddings, honeymoons and a surprise pregnancy But much more sinister events are about to...

Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psychological, and philosophical implications. The authors employ a cross-cultural perspective that is based on ethnographic fieldwork and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect.

Taken together, the essays make four important and interrelated contributions to our understanding of the mental status of the elderly. First, cross-cultural data show that the aging process, while biologically influenced, is...

Originally published in 1998 and a best seller in its hardcover and paperback publications, Blind Man's Bulffis a dramatic, and riveting history. Over the course of five years, investigative reporters Sherry Sontag and Chris Drew interviewed hundreds of men who had never spoken about their underwater livesnot even to their wives and children. They uncovered a wealth of classified information: the tapping of undersea Soviet telephone cables, the stealing of Soviet weapons, the tragic collisions of enemy submarines. They tell of medals awarded in secret and deaths disguised with...